Everyone’s health is his or her own. Everyone’s disease belongs to us all. Health is license; disease is liability…a very-personal liability that impacts humans as an individual, a family, a community, a society. Now, Worrell Design Inc. is rolling out…
Sarah Hoit on Material ConneXion's New Directory of 3D Printing Materials
Most of us think of libraries as repositories of traditional books (ink on bound paper) and their digital analogs — information content that is displayed on screens. Material ConneXion Inc. (MCX) is a company with a mission to identify, organize and…
How Autodesk Intends To Disrupt Manufacturing With Intelligence … & 3D Printing
Autodesk — one of the old-line tech companies with the greatest commercial opportunities in new-line 3D printing — enjoys leadership that can talk. Better: take the stage and educate, authenticate, prognosticate… and inspire. The latter moves and compels with the…
MakerCon — New “Big Tent” Conference For Makers — Debuts In NYC With 3DP-Related Roll-Outs
Maker Media, Inc. (MM) continues to coalesce new communities from its “Maker Movement” — a booming phenomenon that it both helped to birth and continues to support. Now, MM is reworking its offerings again — in response to the opportunities…
3DP4E Producing Poster Series To Showcase 3D Printing…
In the whiteout of our 3D printing “TMI” blizzard, all of us are looking for the hand-raised letterpress signals against the featureless noise of petabyte-gray backgrounds. So, if you’re in the business of galvanizing awareness of 3D printing, exciting attention,…
3DP4E(veryone!) Delivers 3DP Knowledge-Resources 4E(veryone!) 4 Free 2 Educ8 ALL
Voila: the “3D Printing and Digital Fabrication Resource eBook!” We’re in a new industry. (Well, okay, we know it’s actually more than 30 years old…but, 3DP still didn’t get much respect — if you weren’t into rapid prototyping or reverse…
NY NOW Foreshadows New Uses Of 3D Printing By Its Community
One of the advantages of living and reporting in New York City (well, to be a Borough chauvinist, Brooklyn, actually!) is that sooner or later the world comes to you. Often in the form of a trade show. About 800…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 7)
Maybe Crowdfunding through Kickstarter — the dominant player — is a successful strategic mode for a reasonable percentage of the more or less 200 low-cost, desktop, 3D printer companies now in our 3DP marketplace. If so, it may be due…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 6)
In Part 5, we left Kickstarterwith a problem from the “funding success” of too many YowzaPrinters (see Part 3 for my definition)—but with “yikes!” results, post the funding milestone. KS has become the primary Crowdfunding system for the low-end, desktop,…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 5)
In the last four years, the 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing and/or Digital Fabrication sector (collectively: “3DP”) has nearly tripled in size. In 2013, expansion reached nearly 35 percent. With upwards of 200 manufacturing players cumulatively swarming the low-cost desktop 3D…
